Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger starts off the celebrations with spaghetti Bolognaise on Christmas Eve . |
| 2 | DAMON HILL beat off a string of top Formula One drivers , including new Williams-Renault team-mate Alain Prost , to record the fastest time in testing at France 's Signes circuit . |
| 3 | He and wife Sally Ann show off the card ( above ) . |
| 4 | ALL AT SEA : Madge shows off a great , but unwinnable , prize |
| 5 | STEFFI GRAF shook off a sluggish start against Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere by winning 12 of the last 13 games to roar into the U.S. Open final at Flushing Meadow . |
| 6 | Manville peeled off a twenty , tucking it into the man 's palm . |
| 7 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 8 | Rex switched off the suction pump , hung up the miner 's helmet , divested himself of the fisherman 's waders and laid his snorkel aside . |
| 9 | HARLEM NIGHTS Eddie Murphy 's movie with Richard Pryor pulls off the almost impossible : it shows two very funny men for nearly 1 ½ ; hours without raising a laugh . |
| 10 | Hector fending off a MacIan sword from him . |
| 11 | Of course Carvill 's Hill started off a dead cert , yet he limped home badly beaten . |
| 12 | Starting on the Seahawk 13 , Okoye shrugged off an arm tackle from one linebacker and flipped another on to his back at the 11 . |
| 13 | Adams set off an a solo run down the left reminiscent of his days at Leeds , and in the end Southampton 's adventure was rewarded leaving Ipswich with nothing to show for an entertaining afternoon 's work . |
| 14 | But I do know , in general terms , how Fagg manipulates the provender committee and Chatterton creams off the most expensive wines from the cellar to add to the committee 's disposable income . ’ |
| 15 | The stabbing of a German by a Romanian on Sept. 14 in Wismar sparked off a week of attacks against a hostel in the town . |
| 16 | David Frost kicks off a new series of Sunday breakfast current affairs shows by interviewing Premier John Major , Clive James hosts a new series titled Fame In The Twentieth Century , and Selina Scott will present show business and media magazine Entertainment Express . |
| 17 | Then Comrade President Thomas Sankara stepping off a plane , during a state visit , inspects a row of soldiers and salutes a flag . |
| 18 | England hold off the Irish |
| 19 | As Farrah 's parents went through hell , Caren McSweeney showed off the six-month-old to customers at an Irish pub claiming she was called Chloe . |
| 20 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 21 | A few minutes later Romany pulled off the tarpaulin . |
| 22 | 2.50:DAVID Nicholson pulled off a tremendous training performance when Duntree won at Cheltenham after two years off the track . |
| 23 | Karen switched off the hair drier . |
| 24 | Roirbak switched off the film and knelt beside Ari again . |
| 25 | It took a wicked deflection but goalkeeper Thomson brought off a superb save . |
| 26 | Rachaela reeled off a book-established fact . |
| 27 | Parrella held off a spirited fightback from 23-year-old McMahon to win 21–19 . |
| 28 | There were checks to be done , now that Hess had replaced the mechanic , so Karlheinz backed off a few paces with the camera . |
| 29 | To confirm her assertion that there are radicals and revolutionaries in every corner of contemporary social life who are campaigning to overthrow the ‘ traditional ’ moral order , Mrs Whitehouse reels off a formidable list of ‘ folk devils ’ . |
| 30 | But when Meryl Streep tumbled off a plane at Heathrow yesterday , the screen goddess looked every inch a mortal . |